Posted on 03/27/2022 4:42:07 AM PDT by Phoenix8
DUMAS, Ark. — At least one person is dead and 27 people are injured after a shooting happened at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas on Saturday. According to officials, the shooting began around 7:15 p.m. when multiple people reportedly fired into the crowd. Police say that children were injured during the shooting. At least five people were taken by helicopter to hospitals in the area.
One person has been arrested in connection to the shooting, but police are still searching for others who may have been involved. The Arkansas State Police are assisting the Dumas Police Department in the search for additional suspects. Police held a press conference Sunday afternoon where they answered questions related to the incident. Authorities said in the presser that they have identified the victim that died as a result of the shooting as 23-year-old Cameron Shaffer of Jacksonville. The incident is being described as a 'gun fight' involving two different people and police said that Shaffer was not one of the people involved in the altercation. Of the victims, authorities said that at least 5 were children-- an 11-year-old, a 9-year-old, an 8-year-old, a 23-month-old, and a 19-month-old. During the presser, it was said that police are searching for a second suspect. If you need extra support during this time, you can call 1-800-273-8255 or text “HOME” to 741741 to speak with a crisis counselor for free. Street Mentors of Dumas (SMOD) and the Hood-Nic Foundation will host a support session for youth on April 9 at 3:00 p.m. with support from mental health professionals. Parents and guardians may register their children at www.deltaneyo.com. Anyone who may have information related to the shooting who can help investigators identify a suspect or suspects or provide information about the events leading up to the incident are asked by ASP to call (501) 618-8850. If the call goes to voicemail, you can leave a message with the name of the caller and telephone number where they can be contacted at any time. (Note: A previous version of this article indicated that there were 28 victims. Arkansas State Police said one of the victims was at one hospital then transferred to another, accidentally accounting for an extra person injured. ASP has confirmed there were 27 victims.)
I’m almost speechless about the humans that could be so callous and or just stupid.
Black Lives Matter only in the political world.
Black Lives Don’t Mean Sh** in the black community
A “victim” could be a person struck by a tiny bullet fragment—or a fragment of glass or sheet metal—evulsed from intermediate structure(s).
Or injured during the panic and escape
I looked when I really didn’t even need to. Black Lives Matter ONLY when a WHITE person hurts them!
They have been waging a war on the automobile since the Seventies.
Disrespected....
Posted last week
Let me guess.
The shooter must be black or they would headline this a mass shooting.
Wonder if they caught the guy?
It is always my underlying assumption now, until I see otherwise.
Their culture is garbage, and the indiscriminate use of weapons is SOP.
We hear of black parents having to give their kids “the talk” about interacting with the police.
Sadly a lot of white parents have to give their kids “the talk” too. It’s about a certain culture that tends to be violent and lacking impulse control. I say ‘sadly’ because it’s a damn shame it is necessary.
By my calculations, this single event injured or killed almost 1% of Dumas' population. Per capita, that would be like 5,000 people being shot in Chicago in one day.
Wow.
We need to use the death penalty and 50x more than before IMO. Every thug who shot a person there should be executed. Publicly at that.
Dead thugs can’t shoot and dead serial killers can’t rape and strangle.
I know my opinions are worth the air it took to speak them with our system.
There is “The Talk” written by John Derbyshire.
(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as black, and whom I shall refer to as black. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term “African-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “Colored” and “Negro” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘N’ word” is used freely among blacks but is taboo to nonblacks.
(2) American blacks are descended from West African populations, with some white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-African admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though: “It seems that around 10 percent of the African American population is more than half European in ancestry.” (Same link.)
(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but blacks will take you to be white.
(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any individual black is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a nonblack citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some unusual circumstances, however” e.g., paragraph (10h) below” this default principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.
(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among blacks in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying oneself as black). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart, introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious, sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are black geniuses and black morons. There are black saints and black psychopaths. In a population of forty million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.
(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with black Americans. Assuming your encounters are random “for example, not restricted only to black convicted murderers or to black investment bankers” the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means “the averages” of many traits are very different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.
(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.
(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many blacks feel toward whites. Thus, while black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.
(9) A small cohort of blacks ”in my experience, around five percent” is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks ”around half” will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.
(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:
(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.
(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.
(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).
(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.
(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.
(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.
(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”
(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of blacks in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the black stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore ”for example, at a government office” you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a black. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not a myth.
(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized blacks. (I’ll use IWSB as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSBs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.
(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSBs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public” corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.” with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSBs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.
(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSBs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSB in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).
You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/
https://www.takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/2/
It is good advice and I have advised my children accordingly.
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